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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Intelligence efforts bearing fruit - Nadav Shragai

by Nadav Shragai

The majority of the
residents in the east Jerusalem area want to live their lives in peace,
but in many cases they find themselves controlled by local criminals and
terrorists, and Israel is doing little to help them defeat these thugs.

Nineteen-year-old
border policewoman Hadar Cohen was murdered in February near Damascus
Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem by a terrorist using a Carlo rifle,
the Palestinian homemade version of the Carl Gustav submachine gun.

Cohen joined a long
list of Jewish victims killed with that rifle, which is just the kind of
weapon produced by the illegal weapons mills Israeli security forces
raided on Monday night. Over 30 terrorist attacks that have taken place
since the current wave of terrorism erupted last fall involved homemade
Palestinian weapons.

Monday's raid proved
intelligence-gathering efforts by the Shin Bet security agency and the
military have yielded good results, but security forces know Judea and
Samaria is swarming with illegal weapons, some already produced and
delivered, some stolen, and some procured through from criminal
elements, Israeli and Palestinian alike, criminals who have no qualms
about selling weapons to terrorists.

The repeated raids,
which have so far shut down 30 mills, seized over 350 weapons, and
yielded over 140 arrests, can be credited with generating some
deterrence among the Palestinians, who learn -- sometimes the hard way
-- that the IDF will not hesitate to go into the heart of the
population, hostile and dangerous as it may be, to seize these illegal
arms.

One can only hope that
the IDF and the Shin Bet continue with this line of action and that
similar raids take place against criminals, arms dealers and weapon
manufacturers even in the villages near east Jerusalem.

The majority of the
residents in the east Jerusalem area want to live their lives in peace,
but in many cases they find themselves controlled by local criminals and
terrorists, and Israel is doing little to help them defeat these thugs.

Any step Israel can
take to assert its sovereignty over these areas and to counter what
looks like a power vacuum is a welcome one. Israel must pursue and
persist in such moves, to further curb the illegal weapons problem.

Nadav ShragaiSource: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=17009 Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.